CollageCraft: the collage and carousel maker for iPhone and iPad

What can you make with it?

288 built-in layouts, for anywhere from 1 to 30 photos. They're grouped into categories under the Templates tab — plain grids, mosaics, social formats, creative and scrapbook styles, seasonal designs, shapes, and themed sets like Before / After, Fitness, Recap and travel.

• Collages: drop photos into a layout, then drag, scale, rotate or flip each one, change spacing, corners, borders and background, and add text, stickers and shapes.
• Carousels: the Carousel tab builds a multi-slide post of up to 10 slides, mixing photo slides with text, quote and title slides.
• Panorama splits: Split cuts one wide photo into 2, 3, 4, 6 or 9 equal tiles that line up when people swipe.
• Social sizes: Export for Social renders the collage at ready-made sizes for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, Pinterest, YouTube, Snapchat, LinkedIn and WhatsApp.
• Looks: 14 filters plus brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, sharpness and vignette, and one-tap Presets.

How do you make your first collage?

1. Open the Templates tab and pick a category, or scroll All. Each card shows how many photos it holds.
2. Tap a layout. The editor opens with empty slots marked Tap to add.
3. Tap the photo-plus icon at the top to fill every slot at once, or tap a single slot to choose one picture.
4. Tap AI Layout if you want the app to suggest a layout that fits your photo count, and AI Crop to re-centre each photo on faces.
5. Tap the share icon to open Export, choose the Quality, then tap Save to Photos or Share.

What is free and what does Pro add?

Free covers every layout, the whole editor, filters, text and stickers, the carousel maker, AI Layout, AI Crop, and export at HD (1,080 px) or 2K (2,048 px) with no watermark. Some layout cards show a small crown; it's only a badge, and those layouts open and export on the free plan too.

Pro, which is optional, adds Remove BG (AI background removal), 4K and Poster export (4,096 and 6,144 px), print sizes from a 4x6 photo to an 18x24 poster at 300 dpi, transparent PNG export, and no ads. It's sold as a subscription or a one-time purchase, and the price shown depends on your country.

The free version runs ads: a banner, a native ad in the template grid, a full-screen ad on every third export (so exports 3, 6, 9 and on), and sometimes one when you reopen the app. Watch one short video and they're all gone for 30 minutes, which is usually enough for one editing session.

Privacy, offline use and permissions

No account, no cloud upload. Background removal, AI Crop and AI Layout run on the device with Apple's Vision framework, so the app works with no signal at all. The internet only gets used to load ads and the purchase list.

Photos come in through the system picker, so the app never sees your whole library, just what you tapped. It asks for add-only Photos access to save the finished image, and iOS shows the usual tracking prompt; decline it and the app works exactly the same, the ads are just less targeted.

Where it stops: limits worth knowing

• Photo-only. No video, in a collage, a carousel slide or a split.
• Projects stay on whichever device made them; there's no iCloud sync pulling a half-finished collage from your iPhone onto your iPad.
• Each layout has a fixed slot count. To fit more photos, pick a layout built for that many rather than stretching the one you're on.
• iOS 17 or later only, and no Android, Mac or Apple Watch version.